Perched on a double-crested hill overlooking the Tiber River, Umbria hill town Todi – “the world’s most livable city” – commands distant views in every direction. Its “livable” appellation was attached to…
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Certainly the highlight of a vist to Montefalco’s 14th-century Church of San Francesco will be the splendid mid-15th-century fresco cycle of the life of St. Francis by esteemed Florentine painter, Benozzo Gozzoli, in…
I’d last been to the buonissimo Montefalco ristorante, La Locanda del Teatro, a few years ago; at that time, housed in the Palazzo Bontadossi flanking Palazzo Comunale (City Hall) on the town’s main piazza………..and taking its…
There’s no better place to start your visit to Montefalco than in the Church of San Francesco, a synthesis of history, culture and traditions. Built by the frati minori (Friars Minor) between 1335…
Medieval hill town Montefalco, – often called “the balcony of Umbria” – is noted for stunning views surrounding the town seen from every medieval alleyway.,… …… the splendid frescoes of the Church…
“How far my people have traveled! And not for pleasure….” exclaimed in an interview Elena Servi, over ninety, last Jewish woman (she has two sons) of Pitigliano and protagonist of the 2007…
Palazzo Orsini is a defensive complex constructed by the Aldobrandeschi counts of nearby Sovana in the 12th-century, probably built on site of a pre-existing convent or monastery. In the early 14th-century, the palazzo…
Pitigliano, the town of Roman thieves? Well, only according to a legend that traces the name of this southern Tuscan town to two thieves, Petililo and Celiano, fleeing Rome after theft of…
What is a cimitero monumentale? As you might imagine, notable funerary monuments highlight a monumental cemetery. Just steps away (literally) from that Lombard architectural splendor, the Basilica di San Salvatore, Spoleto’s mid-19th-cebtury cimitero monumentale merits a…
On Spoleto’s Cinciano Hill, the Church of San Ponziano, built between the 11th and 13th centuries on an early Christian cemetery site, is dedicated to San Ponziano of Roman Spoletium said to have been…